Telegram-herald., 1887-06-12

WORK oF IDLE cfkRks.
4 fairly good. On tho next page Is q bond
for 81 CO. issued az The sans date. AID On
the following one Is snothsr for 81 .on. bat
this Is not made payable until le<n. aud re
long ilst u coupons make &C as large the
page In which Tins lettsr j. printed Ii was
issued ln l-s3 Tbs paper Is poorer than
those Of the first bonds. the engraving IS
poorly done, aud IL could be easily counter
feitod Some OF the Confederate money, I
am told here, was countsrfeited, and. strange
10 say, the counteTfeiting was done In WASH
ington, and the counterfeiters were arrested
by rhe government Of the United States. and
not BY those OF the Confederate government
Some Of these bonds are issued at q per
cent, and are made pay able two years after
the signing OF treaty Of peace with the
! United States government. Some bear the
face Of jefferson Davis. others that Of Alex
apder III. Stephens and not few that of
Stonewall Jackson.
The collection OF postage stamps is nearly
complete, and am told that the l,oetmasters
OF the United States were continued as far as
possible in Office when they would aeknowl-
edge the Confederaey, and the postal organi-
ration was kept as nearly in its old form as
possible. At first the stamps OF the United
0kItt> Ncfr uc<1is Dtkt iAiEE OI AliD-S u tkc
Confederacy were adopted.
There are a number of envelopes In this
scrap book which show how hard up the Con-
! federate government was during its latter
days. Envelopes once used were turned in
side out and used again Some are made os
| wall paper, and their outsides are of all the
colors OF the rainbow. and others are made Of
ordinary paper and look as though they
might have been cut out with a hand saw
I Paper became very scarce during the last
days OF the Confederacy, and this scarcity
extended 20 the government as well as 20
private citizens.
! Some of the government orders are kept
/ here printed ON the back OF wall paper, and
there IS a newspaper here that is printed on
one silc Of a sheet OF this material The
| Coafederates made some paper, and there are
envelopes here Of their manufactures They
are not very good, however, and show that
I they are the work Of amateurs The money,
/ so far as smaller issues are concerned, Of both
the states and the national government. IS
printed on very poor paper. and during the
| latter days Of the C0nfederacy tickets were
| issued by firms at Richmond in the place of
smaller change, calling for 20 much on de-
mand- State issues, ranging from five cents
TO 81, were on similar paper, and one ] re-
/ member certified that the state of South
| Carolina would pay the bearer FIVE cents on
| the presentation OF the ticket about the size
OF visiting card, ON which the promise was
| made The date of this note was February.
| lsC3. and its ink was so poor that IL is now al
most faded out. On other pages / saw a
number Of commissions for major generals
and brigadier generals. headed jefferson
! Davis, President of the Confederate States or
| America" and there are among these papers
passss through the lines, orders for supplies,
| orders upon the Confederate treasury. ee-
ceipts for money paid for bonds, and thou
sand and one curiosities which IL is hardly
possible to accurately describe
One paper, dated March Is, 1854. repre-
senfcd an account put in By q Confederate
lieutenant: ~For cash paid for the hire Of dogs
ts7o DAYS TO hunt deertcfs" The amount de-
| manded was s25, and IL was certified as cor
rect, and the receipt OF the claimant is ap-
pended 10 IL.
Among these Confederate archives is KEEP.
n pair of pistols which were taken from JEFF
| fersoa Davis when he was captured They
are heavy, clumsy looking weapons. and look
more like double barreIei shotEr1ns turned
| into pistols than Ike the revolver Of tie pres
| eut.
The department has also I'm set of The
signal flags used by the Confederate troops.
ard there i large collection n articles
which were captured in the Confederate dad
letser ofsce. embracing photographs. letfers.
valentines. fancy sT1ici@s. inforuiafion from
the spies OK both sides. counterfeis money,
etc. etc. II has also complete list Of the
/ Confederate senators and representatives a.
tbeT appeared on the pay roIls. to1ether
Ksgr.
dacsd in Congress
Tie Confederate congress met On rsb. 4.
ISL. at Montgomery. Alabama II was frSt
known 81 the provisional congre~s. and -
sub il had bat one horse and hsld -four se.-
ssosls After the permarert consflsation was
sds pied there we're two s~sarrssses. the firxt ~
which met Feb Is. 1862. and vhith drrfnz
its existence held four sessions The secossd
conzress met Oh the ID of Nsg. 5ss4 ans .
held only two sr~zions II finally adioarnei
IN s>ste On ne issh q Mar1h- Isss In tbe
first congress thsre were u7era27Fs Tor dis-
sricts IN Missouri snd Kentaekr slttough
theze ststez had never reeeied Bat IN the
sec5rsd congress fbe nuinber ~ members Il
fte ho1se snd ssasfe he~srae nsnch les. ~
rs b~sr estate The Confe3etsre senate rurn-
hersd - and TIE house rs, snd Ea b<th con-
sTessss Thornaz s Bocock vss sraker Mt
q TIE sttinrs e ttse Coafe5zs43s crnrress
were sTss. srd the sryvernnp<. nrintseTz
sri re r--e~ilsnt hs8 the r5ghs 81 - ffers
ard 70 sYeak rpon fhe Aoor 80 totd fk-t
tie czhfrst ministers sften c1&<<r7t.d 49,
co-gTrss n this nannrr. 3ka<fx Prr<stezss
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